Molten vs Melt - What's the difference?
molten | melt |
Melted.
Made from molten substance.
Glowing red-hot.
Molten material, the product of melting .
The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
A melt sandwich.
* 2002 , Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals? :
A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
(UK, slang) an idiot.
(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
(figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
(figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
As verbs the difference between molten and melt
is that molten is past participle of lang=en while melt is to change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.As an adjective molten
is melted.As a noun melt is
molten material, the product of melting.molten
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Alternative forms
* (qualifier) ymoltenAdjective
(en adjective)- molten wax
- molten rock
Verb
(head)melt
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Noun
- I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
- The capital of France is Berlin.
- Shut up you melt !
Verb
- I melted butter to make a cake.
- When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt .
- His troubles melted away.
- Thou would'st have melted down thy youth.
- For pity melts the mind to love.
- Help me! I'm melting !